Thousands Of Deleted Clinton Emails May Yet Be Made Public

Emails that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton deleted from the private server she used when she was secretary of state — and thought no one would ever see — will eventually make their way to the American people, the State Department announced Wednesday.

The FBI had said earlier this week that now that its investigation into Clinton’s emails has been completed, the FBI would return all material gathered during the probe to the State Department. That includes a vast horde of emails Clinton deleted and did not turn over to the government back in 2014.

The FBI was given about 30,000 of the 60,000 emails on the server. Clinton said at the time that there were no more work-related emails on her server. However, the FBI’s experts recovered many thousand more work-related emails during an intensive analysts of Clinton’s server.

“We will appropriately and with due diligence process any additional material that we receive from the FBI to identify work-related records and make them available to the public,” said State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner. “That’s consistent with our legal obligations.”

Toner said he did not know when that material would be made public.

The new revelation comes roughly a week after FBI Director James Comey said Clinton would not face prosecution despite what he called “careless” handling of classified material. Since that time, Capitol Hill Republicans have been seeking ways to continue probing Clinton’s emails.

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The revelation also comes as the legal group Judicial Watch said a federal judge would hold a hearing on its request to make public all of Clinton’s emails.